Lecture Science & Entertainment Exchange National Academy of Sciences Los Angeles June 13, 2013 Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology Harry E. Gruber Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD1 Quantifying your Superorganism: Your Gut Microbiome and its Interactions with Your Immune System An MRI Showed My Sigmoid Colon Wall Was Thickened and Inflamed I Searched for Clues Among My 150 Blood and Stool Variables, Each Graphed Over 5-10 Years Calit2 64 megapixel VROOM Only One Variable Was Far Out of Norm- Complex Reactive Protein From Blood Sample Normal Range